Building new China, colonizing Kokonor
Subtitle: resettlement in Qinghai in the 1950s
By: Gregory Rohlf
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781498519526
Subjects: Agricultural colonies; Government policy; Frontier and pioneer life; Borderlands; Industrialization; Land settlement; Relations; Colonization; Qinghai Sheng (China); Nation-building; History
Description: "This social and political history of resettlement and state building in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands examines the aims of Han and Hui Chinese settlers sent to Qinghai province, their impact on the land and the population, and the role of the resettlement in the industrialization of the China"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history and rationales for agricultural resettlement to border regions, 1920-1955; title: Resettlement becomes a frontier policy, 1955-1956; title: Moving west, 1955-1956; title: Raising incomes, making homes, 1956-1957; title: Ethnic and social problems in first wave resettlement, 1956-1957; title: From first wave to second wave resettlement, 1957-1958; title: Colonizing Kokonor, 1958-1962.